A New Way to Experience Databases — The Percona Platform

A New Way to Experience Databases — The Percona Platform

We are thrilled to announce the Percona Platform, which brings together database distributions, support expertise, services, management, and automated insights into a single product. Building on our expertise with databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, the new Percona Platform will simplify how you can monitor, manage, and optimize your database instances across any infrastructure. In addition, the Percona Platform will enable you to run your own private Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) instances.

Addressing Your Biggest Database Problems

We’re always listening and with the Percona Platform, we aim to address three of the biggest challenges database administrators have according to our last research report. The three are standardization, performance, and availability.  In fact, 59% of respondents lost sleep at night due to concerns around downtime and availability. Let’s be honest, there’s not much worse than losing sleep.

Developers just want things to work, and they want self-service support so they can iterate faster with fewer cross-team handoffs. Database administrators want help to manage multiple database instances in a consistent approach, so they can deliver a highly available and performant database platform for their development teams as well as their customers. With this release, we are taking the first steps towards meeting these requirements.

Announcing the Percona Platform

Percona Platform is our response, bringing together everything that developers and DBAs need to implement environments quickly, with less effort and complexity. This launch will help developers create their applications faster while building upon a strong foundation provided by their database team.

This launch will preview the Percona Platform, allowing you to unify the entire database experience from packages and backup to monitoring and management, with general availability in early 2022. Percona brings together distributions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB including a range of open source tools for data backup, availability, and management. It also includes Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for database management, monitoring, and automated insights, making it easier to manage database deployments. The Percona Platform preview will have no up-front commitments or fees to use.

Percona Platform will cover all deployment configurations, from internal data center deployments through to public, private, and hybrid cloud instances. At general availability, the platform will also cover self-managed and Percona-managed instances, allowing you the ultimate flexibility to run things the way that best suits your environment, level of confidence, and operating models.

What’s in the Percona Platform?

The Preview will include:

• Percona Portal — provides access to all Percona services and product expertise in one place

• Percona Account — simplifies user account management for all Percona products and services
• Private DBaaS — enables you to easily provision and manage databases on a self-service basis across development and testing instances
• Advisors — automated insights to ensure your database is performing at its best

The platform is available as a preview, and you can get started at percona.com/platform-preview. Try it out today!